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English Tobacco distilled, the water is 
excellently good for such as have dropsy, to 
drink an ounce or two every morning; it 
helps ulcers in the mouth, strengthens the 
lungs, and helps such as have asthmas. 
The water of Dwarf Elder, hath the 
same effects. 
Thus you have the virtues of enough of 
cold waters, the use of which is for mix- 
tures of other medicines, whose operation 
is the same, for they are very seldom given 
alone: If you delight most in liquid medi- 
cines, having regard to the disease, and part 
of the body afflicted by it, these will fur- 
nish you with where withal to make them 
so as will please your pallate best. 
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COMPOUNDS, SPIRIT AND COM- 
POUND DISTILLED WATERS. 
Culpeper.]| Before I begin these, I 
thought good to premise a few words: They 
are all hot in operation, and therefore not 
to be meddled with by people of hot con- 
stitutions when they are in health, for fear 
of fevers and adustion of blood, but for 
people of cold constitutions, as melancholy 
and flegmatic people. If they drink of 
them moderately now and then for recrea- 
tion, due consideration being had to the 
part of the body which is weakest, they 
may do them good: yet in diseases of 
melancholy, neither strong waters nor sack 
is to be drank, for they make the humour 
thin, and then up to the head it flies, where 
it fills the brain with foolish and fearful 
imaginations. 
2. Let all young people forbear them 
whilst they are in health, for their blood is 
usually hot enough wihout them. 
3. Have regard to the season of the year, 
So shall you find them more beneficial in 
Summer than in Winter, because in sum- 
mer the body is always coldest within, and 
digestion weakest, and that is the reason 
why men and women eat less in Summer 
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Thus much for people in health, which 
drink strong waters for recreation. 
As for the medicinal use of them, it shall 
be shewed at the latter end of every receipt, 
only in general they are (due respect had 
to the humours afflicting, and part of the 
body afflicted) medicinal for diseases of 
cold and flegm, chilliness of the spirits, &c. 
But that my countrymen may not be mis- 
taken in this, I shall give them some symp- 
toms of each complexion how a man may 
know when it exceeds its due limits. 
Signs of choler abounding 
Leanness of body, costiveness, hollow 
eyes, anger without a cause, a testy dispo- 
sition, yellowness of the skin, bitterness in 
the throat, pricking pains in the head, the 
pulse swifter and stronger than ordinary, 
the urine highly coloured, thinner and 
brighter, troublesome sleeps, much dream- 
ing of fire, lightning, anger, and fighting. 
Signs of blood abounding. 
The veins are bigger (or at least they 
seem so) and fuller than ordinary ; the skin 
is red, and as it were swollen; pricking 
pains in the sides, and about the temples, _ 
shortness of breath, head-ache, the pulse 
great and full, urine high coloured and 
thick, dreams of blood, &c. 
Signs of melancholy abounding. 
Fearfulness without a cause, fearful and 
foolish imaginations, the skin rough and 
swarthy, leanness, want of sleep, frightful 
dreams, sourness in the throat, the pulse | 
very weak, solitariness, thin clear urine, 
often sighing, &c. 
Signs of flegm abounding. 
Sleepiness, dulness, slowness, heaviness, 
cowardliness, forgetfulness, much spitting, _ 
much superfluities at the nose, little appe- 
tite to meat and as bad digestion, the skin 
whiter, colder and smoother than it was 
want to be; he ie se ee 
